Gunnar Uusi vs Mikhail Tal (1972)

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Gunnar Uusi vs Mikhail Tal
Raud Memorial (1972), Viljandi URS, rd 10, Jul-??
King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation. Classical Main Line (E69) · 1-0

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Aug-18-14		An Englishman: Good Evening: I was exploring Tal's games from 1972 with the intention of finding the first and last games of his 86 game unbeaten street (he had an even longer streak later), and blundered into this huge upset win by the unheralded Uusi. Uusi had managed to fight his way to a slightly inferior but drawable position when Tal, for some strange reason, began to accept every pawn that White sacrificed, exposing his own King to a mating attack.

Aug-18-14		perfidious: Cafferty tells a story regarding this game in his collection, but I do not recall all the particulars. To the best of my recollection, at adjournment, Tal realised that in a critical position, one move would lose and another secure the draw. While walking to the playing hall to play off the adjournment, Tal became confused in his thoughts and wound up playing the move at the board which he had rejected in his analysis.

Aug-19-14		An Englishman: Good Evening: <perfidious>, didn't any of Tal's seconds write down the analysis? I know Tal couldn't bring his notes to the game, but it's hard to believe that someone didn't write, "Play this, not that."

Aug-19-14		Retireborn: <An Englishman> I'm not sure that Tal would have had seconds for this sort of tournament. I wonder if the move perfidious refers to was 42...Ra2+, whereas 42...Rxe3 43.Qxe3 Qxb4 44.Qxa7 Qd2+ 45.Kg3 Qd6+ is a pretty obvious draw. After 42...Ra2+ 43.Kg3 White already has an unpleasant threat of h4-h5 and then 43...Qxb4 just loses quickly. Playing a sequence of moves in the wrong order isn't unusual, even for GMs.

Aug-19-14		perfidious: One more piece of the puzzle: the players at Viljandi were billeted some distance from the playing hall, so Tal had a while to think about things.

Nov-24-14		perfidious: The following is Cafferty's account: <....The game was adjourned in a position in which Tal had a fairly clear drawing line and, seeing that attempts to play for more all lost, Tal decided to offer a draw at breakfast on the morning when the game was to be played off. Tal then explains that he could not find his opponent when he got up, and so had to take a half-hour's (!) walk through hilly country to reach the playing room. On the way his thoughts got mixed up, he failed to offer a draw, and then played the very move which the night before he had rejected!> Tal's 100 Best Games, p 166

Jun-03-16		kereru: 42...Qxb4 is ok because after 43.Re8+ Kf7 44.Qe5, 44...Qd2+ 45.Kg3 Qd7 defends. After 42...Ra2+ (?), 43...Qxb4?? becomes a blunder.

Apr-13-24		tympsa: This was Tal`s only loss in tournament. Finally he scored 10.5 / 13 and was on 2nd place behind Dvoretzky who scored 11 points Good win over former world champion did not help much Uusi. He had 3 wins, 7 losses and 3 draws and finished on 11th place with 4.5 / 13 I had to admire chess of 1970ies in Estonia. Local players could play against world big chess stars , which never happens nowadays.

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